PhD Student in Clinical Forensic Psychology, Simon Fraser University
Raymond Ho is a Clinical Psychology PhD Student at Simon Fraser University in the Douglas Research Lab. He is also a scholar at the CIHR-funded Alliance Against Violence and Adversity Triadic Mentorship Program, and a Research & Evaluation Associate at Homefront Calgary. Passionate about using interdisciplinary connections in solving complex problems, his current research on psychopathy, violence risk assessments, and implementation is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
Raymond was also the director of Access Abroad Hong Kong (formerly Project Access Hong Kong), a registered charity that strives to bridge the opportunity gap in education by empowering underprivileged mentees from low-income backgrounds and non-fee-paying schools. He is currently a mentor at Psych'in Out, a program that supports diverse students in accessing graduate school. He has been teaching and mentoring students for 6+ years, and has also guest lectured on topics such as "Is Santa Claus a psychopath?".
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Professor of Management, Colorado State University
I teach labor and employment relations at Colorado State University. After earning my Ph.D. and J.D. degrees at the University of Colorado, I taught at Pennsylvania State University where I was a tenured associate professor in the Labor Studies Department until returning to Colorado. In 2007, I was awarded a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Labor Law at the University of Tuscia in Viterbo, Italy. My fields of interest include labor history, workplace collective action, and economic justice. My most recent book is a study of American labor law and how it shaped union formation, published by Praeger in 2015 ("The End of American Labor Unions: The Right-to-Work Movement and the Erosion of Collective Bargaining").
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Professor of global affairs, director of the McKenna Center for Human Development and Global Business, University of Notre Dame
Offenheiser served as the inaugural William J. Pulte Director of the Keough School’s Pulte Institute for Global Development, where he oversaw and developed the Pulte Institute’s academic, research, and public policy activities, as well as its strategy for long-term growth. He also identified and cultivated critical, strategic partnerships between the institute and companies, federal agencies, foundations, and private philanthropists. Additionally, he represented the Pulte Institute at local, national, and international events.
A widely known nonprofit leader and innovator with a broad range of international development experience in Asia, Africa and Latin America, Offenheiser served as president of Oxfam America for 20 years. Under his leadership, the agency grew eightfold and repositioned itself in the United States as an influential voice on international development, human rights and governance, humanitarianism, and foreign assistance.
Prior to joining Oxfam, Offenheiser represented the Ford Foundation in Bangladesh and the Andean and Southern Cone regions of South America. He has directed programs for the Inter-American Foundation in Brazil and Colombia, and he has worked for Save the Children Federation in Mexico. At the 2012 G20 Summit, he was appointed by the Obama administration to represent civil society interests on the leadership council of the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in Africa.
Offenheiser has served as honorary president of Wetlands International, and he was a co-founder of the ONE Campaign, the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network and the Food Policy Action Network. He has served on the advisory boards of the World Economic Forum, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Aspen Institute, the World Agricultural Forum, the Gates Foundation, the Clinton Global Initiative, Harvard Business School, the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, and Cornell University.
A 1971 graduate of Notre Dame, Offenheiser also holds a master’s degree in development sociology from Cornell University. He currently serves as chair of the board of directors for BRAC USA is the US-based affiliate of international development organization BRAC, one of the largest nongovernmental organizations in the world, which reaches more than 100 million people in 11 countries with evidence-based approaches that assist families to break out of the cycle of poverty. He also serves on the board of the Consensus Building Institute and the Oxfam America Action Fund and on the Forum for Corporate Responsibility of the BHP Corporation and the advisory board of the Emerging Markets Investors Alliance (EMIA). Offenheiser has been a frequent commentator with US and international media.
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Professor of Economics and Government, Texas A&M University
Dr. Raymond Robertson is a professor and holder of the Helen and Roy Ryu Chair in Economics and Government in the Department of International Affairs at the Bush School of Government and Public Service. He is a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn, Germany.
Robertson earned a BA in political science and economics from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, and an MS and PhD in economics from the University of Texas at Austin. He has taught at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, and was a visiting professor in the Department of Economics at the Graduate School of Administration, Monterrey Institute of Technology’s Mexico City campus.
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Imaging Core Facility Manager, Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge
I am investigating how physical changes in cell morphology give rise to above-ground plant organs such as leaves and flowers. These organs are derived from a continuous pool of undifferentiated cells within the shoot apical meristem. I am interested in how the cells of the meristem undergo proper transformations in shape and size which is a result of changes in cell wall deposition and remodelling of existing cell wall components.
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Professor, Area Chair, Business Technology Management, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary
PhD, MBA, CPA (CGA); extensive background in analytics, artificial intelligence and heuristics, decision modeling, customer satisfaction, information systems, networks, privacy and security.
7/2015 – present: Professor, The University of Calgary, Haskayne School of Business;
11/2017 – 2019: Haskayne Research Professorship, Business Technology Management, The University of Calgary, Haskayne School of Business;
7/2017 – present: Area Chair, Business Technology Management, The University of Calgary, Haskayne School of Business;
7/2016 – 7/2017: Research Director, Accounting and Business Technology Management, The University of Calgary, Haskayne School of Business;
7/2015 – present: Adjunct Professor, The University of Alberta, Alberta School of Business;
7/2001 – 6/2015: Associate Professor, The University of Alberta, Alberta School of Business;
7/2007 – 6/2015: The Alberta School of Business Fellow in Management Information Systems;
7/2002 – 6/2007: Canada Research Chair in Management Information Systems, The University of Alberta, School of Business;
9/1995 – 6/2001 Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Dallas, School of Management.
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Professor Emeritus, Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine, University of Michigan
Raymond De Vries PhD is Professor emeritus in the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine at the University of Michigan and is a Professor emeritus in the Department of Learning Health Sciences, the Department of Sociology, and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He is also Professor emeritus at CAPHRI School for Public Health and Primary Care, University of Maastricht, the Netherlands. He is particularly interested in the regulation of science and the production of scientific knowledge; clinical trials of genetic therapies; the export of western moral traditions to non-western societies; and the social, ethical, and policy issues associated with the medicalization of pregnancy and birth. In 2005 he published A Pleasing Birth: Midwifery and Maternity Care in the Netherlands (Temple University Press), and he is co-editor of The View from Here: Bioethics and the Social Sciences (Blackwell, 2007), Bioethics in the Field, a special issue of Social Science in Medicine (2013), and Critical Studies of Risk and Uncertainty in Maternity Care (Palgrave, forthcoming).
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Professor of Film and Digital Arts, University of Bristol
Rayna Denison is an expert in contemporary popular animation and film, with a specialism in franchising and animation. Her monographs Anime: A Critical Introduction and Studio Ghibli: An Industrial History emphasise the cultural and economic importance of animation within Japanese and global culture. Rayna has also edited books including Princess Mononoke: Understanding Studio Ghibli's Monster Princess, and the Eisner Award-nominated Superheroes on World Screens. Her work can be found in many major journals of film and animation including the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Japan Forum, the International Journal of Cultural Studies and Velvet Light Trap.
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PhD Candidate, Africa Center of Excellence for Climate Smart Agriculture and Biodiversity Conservation, Haramaya University
Razak is a PhD candidate in climate-smart agriculture at Haramaya University.
Mr Kiribou's PhD topic is the Spatio-temporal carbon dioxide emission dynamics induced by land use change in Bontioli complex reserve of the West African dryland ecosystem.
His previous research has included how African apes are already being exposed to climate change impacts, and will experience extreme events such as wildfires, heatwaves and flooding more frequently in the next 30 years (https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal.pclm.0000345).
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Associate Professor of History, University of Tasmania
My fields of expertise are Tasmanian Aboriginal history, the histories of science and empire; genocide and extinction studies. I currently hold an ARC Discovery Project titled: ‘Extinction, Survival, Resurgence: Indigenous and Colonial Histories' at the University of Tasmania, and previously held the ARC Postdoctoral fellowship for the project 'From Race to the Genome: the Tasmanian Aboriginal People within the Scientific Imagination'.
I am contracted with Black Inc to write the book: 'Women at the Edge of the World: Surviving Extinction'.
My 2017 book, Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search for Human Antiquity, (Melbourne University Press) won the 2018 Tasmanian Book Prize, the 2018 Queensland Premier’s Award for history, the inaugural Joan and Dick Family Green Award for Tasmanian History and was shortlisted for the Ernest Scott Prize for history.
I held the inaugural Coral Thomas Fellow at State Library NSW. I have held Fellowships and Scholarships at the The University of Melbourne, Kings College London, Oxford University and the ANU.
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Lecturer in Social and Political Philosophy, University of Bristol
Rebecca Buxton is a Lecturer in Social and Political Philosophy at the University of Bristol, working on migration, displacement, citizenship, and exile. Her research examines the political rights of refugees in various settings and the concept of 'membership' in political and social theory.
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Dr Rebecca Buys is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre.
Her research offers new ways of approaching political, policy and activist processes to make social change through the framework of critical relationism. Rebecca's work examines forms of violence and practices of care. Her current research includes an exploration of the experiences and insights of those who engaged with the 2016 Victorian Royal Commission into Family Violence and its subsequent implementation processes, a critical examination of the facilitation of organised encounters to heal individual and group relations, and a focus on intimate partner violence through the Australian Research Council funded Discovery Project, ‘Securing women’s lives’.
Rebecca has a BA (Hons) in Political Science from the University of Canterbury (Aotearoa/New Zealand), a MSc in Comparative Politics - Conflict Studies from the London School of Economics and a PhD in Public Policy/Social Theory from Deakin University, alongside extensive experience working in government and for non-government organisations.
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Associate professor, Queensland University of Technology
Associate Professor Rebecca Byrne is an ARC DECRA Fellow (2023-2025) and Accredited Practising Dietitian who aims to support parents of young children and educators in the early childhood education and care setting to create calm and enjoyable mealtimes.
Rebecca practised as a clinical dietitian in hospital and domiciliary settings before completing her PhD. After two years as a postdoctoral research fellow within an NHMRC funded Centre for Research Excellence in the Early Prevention of Obesity in Childhood, Rebecca was appointed as a lecturer within the School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences.
Her research focuses on what and how young children are fed. She has a focus on improving the measurement of dietary intake and other health behaviours in early childhood, and the promotion of responsive feeding practices which support children’s autonomy, development of healthy food preferences and optimal growth. Rebecca works with researchers across the disciplines of nutrition, physical activity, nursing, psychology and education and has successful partnerships with organisations such as Playgroup QLD, Children’s Health Queensland and C&K. She is a founding member of Australia’s National Nutrition Network: Early Childhood Education and Care.
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh. My research focuses on human rights and state repression. I am particularly interested in why countries cooperate in transnational repression, measuring human rights using machine learning and text analysis, and examining public opinion and human rights. Additionally, I work on the Sub-national Analysis of Repression Project (SNARP).
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PhD Candidate in Molecular Biology and Plant Pathology, The University of Queensland
I am a current PhD candidate in Molecular Plant Pathology at the University of Queensland, with my thesis focussing on RNA interference-mediated control and exploration of rust fungi. I have an Honours (Class I, Valedictorian) in Molecular Cell Biology, and a Bachelor of Science majoring in Plant Science and Genetics.
I have worked for more than 4 years as a research assistant in Molecular Biology, Plant Pathology, and Forest Pathology. I also have several years of experience as a teaching assistant in Genetics, Plant Biotechnology, and Plant Pathology.
I have published multiple peer-reviewed papers, spoken at conferences both within Australia and internationally, and participated in science communication and outreach through guest seminars and professional committee roles.
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PhD Candidate in Polar Marine Ecology and Climate Change, University of Technology Sydney
I am a final year PhD candidate with University Technology Sydney and UNIS Svalbard (Arctic Norway) and my research interest is the biological implications of sea ice decline and climate change in the polar regions, in both terrestrial and marine environments. I have spent 7 years working in the high Arctic, undertaking remote fieldwork on the frozen ocean. I have produced six first author publications in high quality scientific journals, and co-authored two books on polar fieldwork. I am a passionate advocate for women and diversity in science and have presented at many international conferences and seminars, including on the topic of barriers to participation for women in polar science. I have a Masters of Environmental Science, a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Arts. In addition to conducting my research, I am employed as a guest lecturer and academic teaching staff.
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Senior Lecturer in Physiology, The University of Queensland
I am a lecturer in physiology at the School of Veterinary Science, University of Queensland. Originally from Ireland, I obtained my BSc (Honours) degree in Environmental Biology and my PhD in fish neuroethology from The Queen’s University of Belfast. I then moved to Australia and completed a post-doc in humpback whale social communication.
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology, Hamilton College
Rebecca Dyer is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at Hamilton College and specializes in social and moral psychology. Her research examines the motivational, emotional, and cognitive mechanisms underlying moral judgment and behavior. She is also interested in motivation and goal pursuit more broadly, emotion, and self-regulation.
Before arriving at Hamilton, Rebecca taught at Colgate University, and she has also been a postdoctoral associate at Cornell University. Dyer earned her doctorate from Yale University and her Bachelor of Arts degree from Haverford College.
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Lecturer in Education, Queensland University of Technology
Rebecca English teaches in the School of Curriculum in the Faculty of Education at QUT. She was a teacher in both the Catholic Education and Education Queensland sectors for seven years. She holds a PhD from Griffith University.
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Professor of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
Rebecca Flowers is a professor of geological sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. Dr. Flowers uses thermochronology, geochronology, and geologic observations to address problems in continental tectonics and mantle dynamics, with particular focus on understanding the coupling of deeper Earth and surface processes over extended (10s-100s Ma) timescales. Her (U-Th)/He geochronology lab also emphasizes the development and refinement of both conventional (e.g., apatite, zircon, titanite) and novel (e.g., conodonts, rutile, garnet) He thermochronometers. She is especially interested in creative, collaborative applications of (U-Th)/He data to problems in fields in which the technique has not typically been utilized. For example, her group has dated lunar zircon to constrain the impact history of the Moon, dated perovskite to determine the timing of kimberlite emplacement, and dated conodonts in an effort to decipher the thermal history of shales.
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Lecturer in Criminology, Edinburgh Napier University
Rebecca joined the School of Applied Sciences at Edinburgh Napier University (ENU) as a Lecturer in Criminology in September 2022. Prior to joining ENU, she worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Stirling, based in the Salvation Army Centre for Addiction Services and Research (within Social Sciences). In that role, she was primarily involved in leading and supporting research projects relating to problem substance use. Funders for these projects included the National Institute for Health Research, and the Scottish Government/Drug Deaths Taskforce. Before that, she worked as a social researcher in the Scottish Government in the crime research team.
While her research interests are varied, inequality and marginalisation and the manifestations and experiences of these, are common themes. Rebecca is particularly interested in the lived experience of the criminal justice system (especially prison), problem substance use and homelessness. Methodologically, she is particularly interested in qualitative research, creative methods, ethnographic approaches and peer research.
Rebecca holds a PhD in Criminology from the University of Glasgow. She also holds an MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice, and LLB (Hons) (First Class), both from the University of Edinburgh.
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Rebecca is an atmospheric chemist employed by CSIR since 2011, and has worked in the field of atmospheric science for 15 years. She is a senior researcher in the Climate Studies, Modelling and Environmental Health Research Group, where she is the leader on the group for Regional Air Quality Modelling and Environmental Health. Her research focus includes atmospheric chemistry and climate change, their linkages, and the resultant health impacts from poor air quality and a changing climate.
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Lecturer in Marine Science, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Dr Rebecca Gladstone-Gallagher is a Lecturer in Marine Science at the University of Auckland. Dr Gladstone-Gallagher is a marine ecologist investigating degradation, recovery, and restoration in coastal marine ecosystems. She is particularly interested in the connections and interactions between the biodiversity and how the ecosystem functions. These connections and interactions are key to how ecosystems respond to human made stress and she uses this ecology to develop frameworks and recommendations to assist environmental management decisions.
Dr Gladstone-Gallagher obtained her PhD (Biological Sciences) from the University of Waikato, has over ten years of experience in marine ecology research, and is an active contributor to the peer reviewed scientific literature.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Anthropology, SOAS, University of London
I am a Critical Heritage Studies scholar with a disciplinary background in Archaeology and Anthropology. My PhD research focused on Indigenous perceptions of the impacts of climate change on their heritage. I have expertise in intangible heritage, ciritical heritage studies, ethnographic study, cultural heritage law, food studies, and indigenous studies.
I am now a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS looking at the influence of the popularisation of Israeli cuisine on Jewish diasporic foodways, and, in particular, the effects this has had on the inclusion on Jews of MENA descent living in the diaspora.
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Assistant Professor, Global Development Studies, Queen's University, Ontario
Dr. Rebecca Hall is an Assistant Professor of the Political Economy of Resource Extraction and Development in the Department of Global Development Studies at Queen’s University. As a feminist political economist concerned with social justice, her research examines how land and resources are accessed, organized, and extracted from, and how people work, care and reproduce upon this land. Her research has explored the gendered dynamics of resource extraction in Canada; social reproduction and caring labours; ongoing processes of settler colonialism; and gender violence. Her 2022 book, Refracted Economies: Diamond Mining and Social Reproduction in the North (University of Toronto Press), examines the gendered dynamics of diamond mining in the Northwest Territories, Canada.
Rebecca's current research examines community experiences of mine closure and aspirations for "post-extractive futures". She is pursuing this research as a co-lead of "We Will Not Be Banned From Our Land", a research network led by Dedats'aatsaa: Tlicho Research and Training Network. She has also partnered with the Yellowknives Dene First Nation and Ecology North in facilitating community talking circles on mine closure.
Rebecca earned her MA and PhD in Political Science from York University.
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PhD Candidate in History, Monash University
Rebecca Houlihan is a current PhD candidate at Monash University. Her PhD looks at the social and cultural history of the internet in Australia from 1989-2010.
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Associate professor, English, University of Sydney
Rebecca Johinke is an Associate Professor and Chair of the the Discipline of English and Writing in the University of Sydney. She has a long-term interest in Gender Studies and Popular Culture as it intersects with Literary and Film Studies. Her interests include writing and rhetoric (creative nonfiction, print and digital magazines), Australian film and popular culture (including popular music), and street narratives (from masculine car cultures to street cultures more generally), and she has a specific interest in walking narratives. She also conducts research about the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (assessment and feedback, student support, and the first year experience). Her most recent journal articles have appeared in The Journal of Popular Culture, Journalism Studies, Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia, and Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education.
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NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University
Dr Rebecca Leech is a Registered Nutritionist (RNutr.) and Nutritional Epidemiologist. She has a PhD in Nutritional Epidemiology, and in 2018, was awarded an Alfred Deakin Medal for her doctoral thesis, which examined adults’ eating patterns and their relationships with overall diet quality and markers of cardiometabolic health. Eating patterns describe the timing, frequency, and food content of eating occasions, which includes meals and snacks. Her current research applies novel analysis techniques and assessment methods to understand the contextual determinants of eating patterns. Rebecca's research intends to inform the development of strategies for healthy eating that are context-specific and tailored to everyday situations.
Since the award of her PhD in 2018 Rebecca has held three consecutive fellowships and has received over $673k in research funding (National Heart Foundation; National Health & Medical Research Council) as lead investigator. In 2019, she was a Finalist for the Premier's Award for Health and Medical Research (Public Health Category). Between 2018 and 2021 she was the Chair of Student Mentoring for the Nutrition Society of Australia. Rebecca also has a master's degree in clinical epidemiology and was a secondary teacher of German and Science before pursuing a career in nutrition research.
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Rebecca Macmillan is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin, and currently the Assistant Editor of Texas Studies in Literature and Language. Her dissertation looks at contemporary poetry projects that incorporate visual materials and employ archival strategies to document ordinary forms of present-day crisis. Her broader research and teaching interests include: poetry and poetics, theories of the archive, photography, feminist and affect studies, and memoir.
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Lecturer Learning Sciences and Development, The Centre for Change and Complexity in Learning (C3L), Education Futures, University of South Australia
First class Honours in Psychology (graduated 2016)
PhD in STEM (graduated 2020)
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Australian National University
My current research involves using satellite gravity data to measure the temporal and spatial variations of the solid Earth and it’s fluid envelope. I have particular interest in using space gravity analysis, along with other geodetic techniques, to measure changes in the mass balance of polar ice caps and glaciers, and how their decreasing volume is contributing to global sea level rise.
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Senior Specialist in Molecular Biology, Malaghan Institute of Medical Research
I entered into the world of molecular science in 2010 completing a BSc(Hons) in Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Otago. Here I fell into the world of CRISPR-Cas an adaptive bacterial immune system that has now taken the world by storm with its abilities to edit the human genome completing my honours degree in the lab of Peter FIneran. Through this topic I made my way to Delft University of Technology to work as a research assistant and then complete my PhD degree also focussed on the topic of CRISPR-Cas immunity and the interaction between viruses and bacteria on a single cell level. On completion of my PhD I returned to New Zealand and had the desire to apply my skills in research and communication to a topic in science directly contributing to the better health of others and as a result I accepted the exciting position at the Malaghan Institute as a postdoc on setting up an RNA vaccine and therapeutic pipeline.
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Senior Lecturer in Professional Practice and Architectural Design, University of Sydney
Dr Rebecca McLaughlan is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney and a Registered Architect, currently serving as the Academic Member on the New South Wales Architects Registration Board. Rebecca’s research explores the ways that architecture embodies care by examining lived experiences and perceptions of the built environment; and the processes through which architects create environments capable of extending care through their contributions to end user wellbeing. She recently completed an ARC DECRA Fellowship examining the ways the built environment can support experiences of palliative care for patients, families and staff.
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